Let all urgent matters wait while you fully immerse yourself in reading the new retro-detective by Nikolai Svechin!
Court assessor Alexey Lykov, famed for his battles and bearing seven terrible wounds, only just managed to marry his longtime love Varenka Nefedyeyeva when he is suddenly sent on assignment to the North Caucasus!
Along with his friend and colleague Baron Viktor Taube, Lykov must catch an emissary of Turkish intelligence who threatens the external security of the Russian State. Lykov will more than once end up on the brink of death, fight abrek outlaws—and all this against the backdrop of the most picturesque nature and the mountains of Dagestan!